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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent

Northern Ireland elections may be delayed until April to facilitate Brexit talks

Chris Heaton-Harris
Chris Heaton-Harris told the House of Commons in a statement that he would be tabling an emergency law to facilitate Brexit talks for up to three months. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Elections for the Northern Ireland Stormont assembly could be delayed until next April to give talks between the UK and the EU on the controversial Brexit trade arrangements a chance, the government has announced.

The decision comes as Rishi Sunak meets the taoiseach, Micheál Martin, for the first time, in a further thawing of Anglo-Irish relations at a British-Irish Council summit in the north-west of England on Thursday.

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